When Blood Lies, Audiobook (2022) C.S. Harris narrated by Jenny Sterlin (Sebastian St. Cyr #17) Set in Paris in 1815 Sebastian and Hero have traveled to Paris in the hopes of finally finding Sebastian’s mother. Unfortunately, she is murdered before Sebastian can ask her her about his father, and so Sebastian and Hero search for […]
What the Devil Knows, Audiobook (2021) C.S. Harris narrated by Davina Porter (Sebastian St. Cyr 16) Set in London in 1814. In 1811 two families were savagely murdered in what came to be known as the Ratcliffe Highway murders. When the corrupt magistrate who was in charge of that case is found dead in an […]
Who Speaks for the Damned, Audiobook (2020) C.S. Harris narrated by Davina Porter (Sebastian St. Cyr #15) Set in London in 1814 It’s a bad combination, in my experience—arrogance and wounded pride. It sours a man. You’d think at her age she’d be done with breeding, but she keeps popping them out. Claiborne says I’m […]
- August 6th, 2024
- Categories: 7.5/10, Audio Book, British, Historical, Mystery, Reread
- Tags: C.S. Harris, Davina Porter, Napoleonic Era, Regency, Sebastian St. Cyr
Who Slays the Wicked, Audiobook (2019) C.S. Harris narrated by Davina Porter (Sebastian St. Cyr #14) Set in London in 1814 Content warnings: rape “Do you have any idea who might have killed him?” he asked Stephanie. “Someone who disliked him?” she suggested, her nostrils quivering with a pinched look. “That should narrow the list […]
- July 30th, 2024
- Categories: 8/10, Audio Book, British, Good Cover, Historical, Mystery, Reread
- Tags: C.S. Harris, Davina Porter, Napoleonic Era, Regency, Sebastian St. Cyr
Why Kill the Innocent, Audiobook (2018) C.S. Harris narrated by Davina Porter (Sebastian St. Cyr # 13) Set in London in 1814 Content warnings: rape “I was hoping I’d find you here,” said Devlin pleasantly. Jarvis kept walking. “I wish I could say I’m delighted not to have disappointed you, but I fear that would […]
- July 21st, 2024
- Categories: 8/10, Audio Book, British, Historical, Mystery, Reread
- Tags: C.S. Harris, Davina Porter, Napoleonic Era, Regency, Sebastian St. Cyr
Where the Dead Lie, Audiobook (2017) C.S. Harris narrated by Davina Porter (Sebastian St. Cyr # 12) Set in England in 1812 Content warnings: rape and torture of teenagers (off page) the brutalized body of a 15-year-old boy dumped into a makeshift grave on the grounds of an abandoned factory. One of London’s many homeless […]
- July 20th, 2024
- Categories: 8/10, Audio Book, British, Historical, Mystery, Reread
- Tags: C.S. Harris, Davina Porter, Napoleonic Era, Regency, Sebastian St. Cyr
When Falcons Fall, Audiobook (2016) C.S. Harris narrated by Davina Porter (Sebastian St. Cyr # 11) Set in England in 1813 Content warnings: rape (off page) Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, has come to this seemingly peaceful Shropshire village to honor a slain friend and on a quest to learn more about his own ancestry. […]
- July 14th, 2024
- Categories: 8/10, Audio Book, British, Historical, Mystery, Reread
- Tags: C.S. Harris, Davina Porter, Napoleonic Era, Regency, Sebastian St. Cyr
Who Buries the Dead, Audiobook (2015) C.S. Harris narrated by Davina Porter (Sebastian St. Cyr # 10) Set in England in 1813. Content warning: rape, slavery (off page) The vicious decapitation of Stanley Preston, a wealthy, socially ambitious plantation owner, at Bloody Bridge draws Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, into a macabre and increasingly perilous […]
- July 7th, 2024
- Categories: 8.5/10, Audio Book, British, Historical, Mystery, Reread
- Tags: C.S. Harris, Davina Porter, Napoleonic Era, Regency, Sebastian St. Cyr
Why Kings Confess, Audiobook (2014) C.S. Harris narrated by Davina Porter (Sebastian St. Cyr #9) Set in England in 1813 Content warning: discussion of historical child abuse and imprisonment A contingent from France is rumored to be in London for peace talks, when the young doctor with the group is found brutally murdered–with his heart […]
- June 27th, 2024
- Categories: 8.5/10, Audio Book, British, Historical, Mental Health Rep, Mystery, Physical Health, Reread
- Tags: Addiction, C.S. Harris, Davina Porter, Napoleonic Era, Regency, Sebastian St. Cyr
A Dangerous Madness (2014) Michelle Diener (Regency London #3) Set in London in 1812 “I can’t marry you, Pheebs. I know that’s going to make things difficult for you and I want to go through with it, of course I do, it would solve a number of problems, but I don’t have the time for […]
- June 17th, 2024
- Categories: 8.5/10, British, eBook, Historical, Mental Health Rep, Mystery, Reread, Romance
- Tags: Grief, John Bellingham, Michelle Diener, Napoleonic Era, Regency, Regency London, Spenser Percival
What Darkness Brings, Audiobook (2013) C.S. Harris narrated by Davina Porter (Sebastian St. Cyr #8) Set in London in 1812 Russell Yates, Kat Boleyn’s husband, has been accused of the murder of Benjamin Eisler. Hendon asks Sebastian to help–not for Yates’ sake but for Kat’s. It seems that Eisler had a giant blue diamond he […]
- June 16th, 2024
- Categories: 8.5/10, Audio Book, British, Historical, Mental Health Rep, Mystery, Queer, Reread
- Tags: C.S. Harris, Davina Porter, Napoleonic Era, Regency, Sebastian St. Cyr
When Maidens Mourn, Audiobook (2012) C.S. Harris narrated by Davina Porter (Sebastian St. Cyr #7) Set in England in 1812 Sebastian St. Cyr’s plans to escape the heat of London for a honeymoon with his new bride, Hero Jarvis, are shattered when the murdered body of Hero’s good friend Gabrielle Tennyson is discovered drifting in […]
- June 11th, 2024
- Categories: 7.5/10, Audio Book, British, Good Cover, Historical, Mystery, Reread
- Tags: C.S. Harris, Davina Porter, Napoleonic Era, Regency, Sebastian St. Cyr
Where Shadows Dance, Audiobook (2011) C.S. Harris narrated by Davina Porter (Sebastian St. Cyr #6) Set in London in 1812 When Paul Gibson purchases his latest cadaver for research, he discovers the young man, Alexander Ross, did not die of a weak heart, but was instead murdered. Unable to report the discovery that his stolen […]
- June 8th, 2024
- Categories: 8.5/10, Audio Book, British, Good Cover, Historical, Mystery, Reread
- Tags: C.S. Harris, Davina Porter, Napoleonic Era, Regency, Sebastian St. Cyr
What Remains of Heaven, Audio Book (2009/2016) C.S. Harris narrated by Davina Porter (Sebastian St. Cyr #5) Set in England in 1812. When the controversial, reform-minded Bishop of London is found bludgeoned to death in an ancient crypt beside the corpse of an unidentified man murdered decades before, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is asked […]
- June 3rd, 2024
- Categories: 8.5/10, Audio Book, British, Historical, Mystery, Reread
- Tags: C.S. Harris, Davina Porter, Napoleonic Era, Regency, Sebastian St. Cyr
Where Serpents Sleep, Audiobook (2008/2015) C.S. Harris narrated by Davina Porter (Sebastian St. Cyr) Set in England in 1812. Oddly, on the same day, the book I was listening to and the book I read both had passages about the murder of Prime Minister Spenser Percival. I prefer the “solution” presented in the other book […]
- May 30th, 2024
- Categories: 8/10, Audio Book, British, Good Cover, Historical, Mystery, Reread, Sexual Content
- Tags: C.S. Harris, Davina Porter, John Bellingham, Napoleonic Era, Regency, Sebastian St. Cyr, Spenser Percival
Why Mermaids Sing, Audio Book (2007/2015) C.S. Harris narrated by Davina Porter (Sebastian St. Cyr) Set in England in 1811. Several young men have been found dead, their bodies mutilated. As several are from prominent families who refuse to speak to the police, Sir Henry Lovejoy begs Sebastian for help. If I’m lucky, I’ll be […]
- May 25th, 2024
- Categories: 8/10, Audio Book, British, Historical, Mystery, Queer, Reread
- Tags: C.S. Harris, Davina Porter, Napoleonic Era, Regency, Sebastian St. Cyr
An Unexpected Gentleman (2011) Alissa Johnson (Haverston Family) Set in the early 1800s in Scotland All Adelaide Ward wants is to marry for the security of her family: her sister, her nephew, and (probably) her brother. And if doing that means marrying Baron Robert Maxwell, she is willing to do so. But Connor Brice wants […]
- May 24th, 2024
- Categories: 8.5/10, British, eBook, Historical, Reread, Romance, Sexual Content
- Tags: Alissa Johnson, Boinking, Haverston Family, Regency
Nearly a Lady (2011) Alissa Johnson (Haverston Family) Set in England and Scotland during the regency, after the wars with Napoleon. Gideon Haverston has returned home from war with both physical scars and mental ones. Gideon shifted his weight to his good leg, pivoted, knocked the barrel of the rifle away with one hand, and […]
- May 19th, 2024
- Categories: 9.5/10, British, Comfort Read, eBook, Historical, Mental Health Rep, Physical Health, Reread, Romance, Sexual Content
- Tags: Alissa Johnson, Boinking, Haverston Family, Regency
When Gods Die, Audio Book (2006/2015) C.S. Harris narrated by Davina Porter (Sebastian St. Cyr) Set in England in 1811. At the Prince Regents dinner party, the beautiful young wife of an elderly marquis is found dead–stabbed in the back, her clothing partially undone. Jarvis immediately starts to cover up the prince’s involvement, but he […]
- May 15th, 2024
- Categories: 8/10, Audio Book, British, Historical, Mystery, Reread
- Tags: C.S. Harris, Davina Porter, Napoleonic Era, Regency, Sebastian St. Cyr
What Angels Fear, Audio Book (2005/2014) C.S. Harris narrated by Davina Porter (Sebastian St. Cyr) Set in England in 1811 A young actress has been found horribly murdered, in St Matthews of the Fields’ Lady Chapel, and a deuling pistol with Viscount Devlin’s device on the trigger guard. I am so far behind on this […]
- May 5th, 2024
- Categories: 8/10, Audio Book, British, Good Cover, Historical, Mystery, Reread, Sexual Content
- Tags: C.S. Harris, Davina Porter, Napoleonic Era, Regency, Sebastian St. Cyr
Breeze Spells and Bridegrooms (2024) Sarah Wallace, S.O. Callahan (Fae & Human Relations: A Regency Fantasy Series) Roger Barnes failed his Hastings Exam–the magical test that determines which child can inherit. He believes the is inherently problematic, and goes up before the Council to propose a different testing scheme. Many humans, once they reached the […]
- May 2nd, 2024
- Categories: 7.5/10, Ace, eBook, Fantasy, Good Cover, Historical, Mental Health Rep, Queer, Romance
- Tags: Ace, Boinking, MM, Regency, S.O. Callahan, Sarah Wallace
Murder at Midnight (2023) Katharine Schellman (Lily Adler) Set in England in 1816 The fourth Lily Adler book finds her at a house party with her late husband’s family, Matthew Spenser, and the Hartleys. Lily had always found their custom of calling each other by their middle names—the names chosen by their mother, rather than […]
- November 5th, 2023
- Categories: 8.5/10, British, Cozy, eBook, Good Cover, Historical, Mystery, Queer
- Tags: Katharine Schellman, Lily Adler, Napoleonic Era, Racism, Regency
Death at the Manor (2022) Katharine Schellman (Lily Adler) Set in England in 1815. Jack’s ship is repaired and ready to return to see, and Lily is headed to the country to visit her aunt. “Will you write me?” “Of course. I shall tell you how revered I am aboard ship and how no one […]
- October 22nd, 2023
- Categories: 8/10, British, eBook, Good Cover, Historical, Mystery, Queer
- Tags: Katharine Schellman, Lily Adler, Napoleonic Era, Regency
Silence in the Library (2021) Katharine Schellman (Lily Adler) Set in London in 1815 Lily Adler has slowly getting back into life in London, when she received an unexpected visitor: her father. The man disapproves of absolutely everything she does–and isn’t quiet about his opinions. Although she doesn’t appreciate his demands or her presence, she […]
- October 15th, 2023
- Categories: 9/10, British, eBook, Good Cover, Historical, Mental Health Rep, Neurodiversity
- Tags: ASD, Katharine Schellman, Lily Adler, Napoleonic Era, Regency
The Body in the Garden (2020) Katharine Schellman Set in England in 1815. Lily Adler has returned to London in an attempt to restart her life after the loss of her husband. Lily had to take a deep breath before she could respond. It had been two years, but her chest still clenched almost too […]
- October 8th, 2023
- Categories: 8/10, British, Cozy, eBook, Good Cover, Historical, Mystery
- Tags: Grief, Katharine Schellman, Lily Adler, Napoleonic Era, Racism, Regency